Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 196 Unexpected Situations
If Wu Laosan is conscious, he would usually be the one to identify the scene and determine the burial location.

However, Wu Laosan was bitten by a snake, and the bite was so close to his head that he was already unconscious and had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment.

If it were something else buried, we could patiently wait for Wu Laosan to regain consciousness before reopening the case. But this time... it was a corpse buried in the soil, a corpse that had been dead for many days and was only a few days away from complete decomposition.

In this situation, who can afford to wait?

The information and clues found on the body, especially regarding the identification of the headless corpse, demanded that the police continue to investigate. Once the body turned to bones, much of the information would be lost.

Moreover, the police cannot ignore what Wu Laosan said before he fell into a coma; they must take it into consideration, regardless of whether it is true or false.

Therefore, excavating the crack as quickly as possible became the police's primary task. Despite the risk of collapse, they had to find a way to overcome this risk.

Upon learning that Lin Ge could accurately pinpoint the location of a body, the Zhuzhou Public Security Bureau quickly made a decision and launched two plans simultaneously.

One approach is to drive stabilizing piles into the direction of soil collapse to minimize the risk of further collapse.

Secondly, Lin Ge would identify the location of the body, and then the police would begin the excavation. If the identified location was incorrect, a large-scale excavation of the surrounding area would immediately commence. They could eventually manage to bring up excavators and other equipment.

This is all the Zhuzhou police could do given the circumstances.

In many TV shows and novels, police officers are depicted as possessing all sorts of high-tech equipment, sophisticated devices, and specialized data analysis capabilities, etc.

However, in reality, these days, police still rely heavily on manpower and physical strength to solve most cases. Patiently searching, surveillance, multiple investigations, group discussions, and intelligence gathering—these are the mainstream methods used by the police. Forensic evidence, fingerprints, footprints, fly eggs, insect remains, etc., are generally only used in murder cases or major crimes. Moreover, due to technological limitations, these scientific investigative methods often require assistance from universities or specialized institutions and cannot become mainstream criminal investigation techniques.

As for even more outrageous deductive reasoning in solving cases, it's meaningless under domestic law. Many cases, without solid evidence, won't even pass the prosecutor's scrutiny, let alone be sentenced by the court.

Therefore, police officers often transform into diggers, latrine cleaners, hiking experts, and women's advocates, using time-honored methods to find the truth for victims, rather than simply relying on verbal logic.

For example, this time, thirty policemen, twenty shovels, three hand-operated dump trucks, plus a cat, three dogs, and a little girl, that was the entire team digging up the body here.

Even the dump truck, weighing several hundred kilograms, was painstakingly carried up the mountain by these policemen on their shoulders. The group, drenched in sweat, carried this heavy, hard, angular, and unbalanced thing through the thickets to its destination for more than two hours.

The group sat panting for more than half an hour, and even Sun Chang, who helped carry the tools, looked exhausted.

Only Lin Ge, who was being carried up the mountain on Bei Bei's back, still had a relaxed expression. He even licked the fur off his paws and arms, spitting sand all over Bei Bei, making Bei Bei's expression even more bitter and helpless.

The two police dogs following behind exchanged a glance and both revealed gloating smiles.

As expected of a Labrador, that smile is truly both cheeky and wicked.

Sun Chang, who had turned around, saw this and shook his head with a smile.

To be honest, Beibei was Sun Chang's client, while Lin Ge was merely a pet she had a good relationship with, was relatively capable, and was someone she liked and entrusted with taking care of. However, seeing Lin Ge bullying Beibei, she was completely powerless to rescue her. In fact, witnessing this scene only made her feel amused; she didn't feel sorry for Beibei. How could there be any malice involved in the interaction between cats and dogs, right?

"Work!"

He clapped his hands and the lead officer called his subordinates to their feet.

The group stood up grumbling, dusted themselves off, lined up to get shovels, and then watched as Lin Ge directed Bei Bei to turn left and right, quickly choosing a spot. He then yelled and gave the order to get to work.

Some felled trees, others sharpened their branches, and still others drove piles. In just over two hours, they worked together to set up a segmented protective pile, more than 20 meters wide, along both the top and bottom edges of the hillside, minimizing the possibility of landslides caused by excavation.

It was already past 1 p.m. when the group took a break, taking out the dry rations they had prepared and eating them cold with their water bottles. They then found a place to squat down, closed their eyes, and rested to recharge for the work ahead.

Lin Ge watched the scene with impatience from beginning to end, and he was very disdainful of the police officers' lack of trust in his abilities.

However, just in case, he didn't intend to say anything. He simply left the group to wander around the area for a couple of hours, but unfortunately, he didn't encounter the snake again.

When they returned, they saw the police officers back at work. Some were digging, others were actively transporting the soil in carts. They worked hard in the morning and finished quickly in the afternoon. At the spot pointed out by Lin Ge, the group of police officers successfully smelled the stench in less than half an hour.

The nauseating stench of the corpse was so strong it seemed almost within reach. The crowd was overjoyed and worked even harder. Then, the young policeman dug with force, and with a shovel, he lifted some long objects into the air.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered to be a severed arm, with five distinct fingers still connected by fascia. Due to the decaying skin, the rotting flesh and dirt on the arm were mixed together, making it look extremely bizarre in shape and color, quite resembling the zombie image from a Chinese horror movie.

"vomit……"

The young policeman turned around and vomited.

"Get lost, don't you dare pollute the scene!"

The person in charge roared angrily and immediately called the police and prosecutors down the mountain. They would prepare to store and move the equipment down the mountain immediately, and then transport it up as quickly as possible.

Once they found the arm, the rest of the body wouldn't be far behind. The group abandoned their shovels and took out small spades to carefully remove the soil. The disgusting, sticky grime was extremely unpleasant, but thankfully they had plastic gloves, and they quickly unearthed the rest of the body.

With a cry of alarm from an elderly policeman, the torso of the headless corpse was discovered and carefully removed from the pit. Sun Chang was responsible for recording the body parts on a nearby tarpaulin. He quickly determined that, apart from the head, which was located in an ancient tomb several mountains away, the rest of the body parts were mostly there. Even based on the relatively intact clothing on the body, Sun Chang could roughly determine the sex and age of the deceased, concluding that he was probably from southern China.

However... no matter how deeply the police investigated and how much they searched the surrounding area, the most crucial missing part of the victim's remains—his head—was still not found.

This made everyone's expressions serious, and their excitement from before was gone.

"how is this possible?"

Lin Ge stood far away on a mound of earth, muttering to himself, never expecting things to change like this.

The entire police operation began with that initial headless male corpse.

Because of that corpse, Lin Ge and Nie Guoqiang were invited by the Yexian Police Station to come to Nan Province specifically to search for the remains. Then, Lin Ge unexpectedly discovered the ancient tomb, and subsequently found a second corpse inside.

The case evolved from a murder and dismemberment case into a massive heinous incident involving multiple murders and dismemberments, alarming many police officers in Zhuzhou City. This led to Lin Ge going up the mountain and leading a team of police dogs to arrest Wu Laosan on the spot.

However, now, all parts of the second body have been discovered.

But the head of the first corpse was still missing.

Why is this happening?

No one knew where the head had gone, nor did they understand why the case had become so complicated.

Sun Chang blinked, thought for a moment, and secretly took out his phone to send a message to Nie Guoqiang, along with the pictures of the corpse.

The police saw it, but did not stop it.

Because several officials were also on the phone at that moment, the development of the situation forced them to make more extensive speculations, and even prepare for the case to escalate further.

"Wu Laosan, perhaps he really did die from stupidity."

A thought suddenly popped into Lin Ge's mind.

Judging from the scene, there's almost no doubt that the body is related to Wu Laosan. However, whether he was truly involved in the serial murders and dismemberment is uncertain, as he had no reason to bury the bodies separately.

Why would a prisoner make such a complicated skull? This question has become increasingly perplexing.

(End of this chapter)